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California community colleges try to boost graduation rates Marketplace.org (with audio)
At Mt. San Antonio College near Los Angeles, professors and counselors spent a recent morning holed up in a windowless conference room, armed with copies of the course catalog and pads of yellow and blue Post-its. Their job was to map out, semester by semester, all of the classes a student in a given major would need to get to an associate degree in two years.

The case for community college TIME
Low-income students outnumber middle- and high-income students at community colleges by two to one, and a recent study estimated that as many as 14 percent may be homeless.